Different from the Others

Different from the Others 1919

6.80

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).

1919

Alraune

Alraune 1930

4.92

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

1930

Prostitution II

Prostitution II 1919

1

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

1919

Dreyfus

Dreyfus 1930

5.58

In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.

1930

Eerie Tales

Eerie Tales 1919

5.50

After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.

1919

Lady Hamilton

Lady Hamilton 1921

5.80

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

1921

Earth Spirit

Earth Spirit 1923

5.50

When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is endowed with tremendous erotic charisma that utterly enchants any man in her reach. Although Schön sees disaster approaching, he cannot let go of her. (Stumfilm.dk)

1923

The Uncanny House

The Uncanny House 1916

1

A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his new residence. Notes warn him, a beautiful woman appears in the mirror, valuable documents disappear from the tightly locked safe.

1916

Vienna, City of Song

Vienna, City of Song 1930

1

Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning lottery number in the newspaper, Korn and Burgstaller, thinking they have won, pay the drinks for everybody in the Bock Café and then give away their businesses.

1930

Villa Falconieri

Villa Falconieri 1928

8.00

A young count rents a villa near Rome to be near a woman he's courting. While there, he strikes up a friendship with a young woman living with a violent husband.

1928

The Story of Dida Ibsen

The Story of Dida Ibsen 1918

1

Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.

1918

Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days 1919

5.50

Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.

1919

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1917

6.00

A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.

1917